Profiling showed that receiveAndExtend is frequently called with the length of
one bit. This happens for example in decodeBaseline.
For a single bit, the loop and shift in receive, as well as the shifts in
receiveAndExtend are overhead.
This shortcut manually calculates the shifts by either returning 1 or -1 from
receiveAndExtend by reading the bit and deciding on the return value.
While it comes with an overhead for each non-one length, the speedup is at about
10% in the hot parse/decode path.
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